If you ever want to install the amazing multiplayer SoulFu medieval-fantasy game from Aaron Bishop (up to 4 players with joysticks & keyboard on a single computer) on your Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) 64bit, follow the howto below. The most problematic point is that it depends on libjpeg62 compiled in a 32bit version. To install this […]
This article is co-authored by Jérôme Warnier, from work mostly done by him with my occasional support. Kudos go to him. We couldn’t find any valuable manual to install Redmine 2.1 on Debian Squeeze, and we sure met a lot of resistance along the way, so we came up with the following step-by-step guide… Sources […]
Let’s say you got confused by a misleading fake-RAID feature on an HP Blade server and you decided to ignore that the Ubuntu installer was telling you it found 2 disks while it was supposed (if it was actual hardware RAID) to be detecting only one. And let’s say you are lucky to have 3 […]
The recommended filesystem for Squid on OpenSolaris is ZFS: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/BestOsForSquid It is also recommended to disable the atime property on the filesystem holding the cache, and you may want to avoid using any type of RAID. To achieve this on Nexenta (or OpenSolaris, whatever), first create the ZFS filesystem: # zfs create -o atime=off -o […]
This article was first written in September 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/168). For the moment, no official XAMS binary package exist. You have then to play a bit with the Subversion repository. So, update or export your xams-0.0.x and xams-0.0.x-debian repositories. Done? Ok, let’s continue then. Copy your xams-0.0.x directory to another name, […]
This article was first written in August 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/158). NUT is the Network UPS Tools. To setup NUT on Debian, you first need to know what kind of UPS you have, and how it is/will be connected to your Debian machine. We will not yet analyse how to do monitoring […]
This article was first written in May 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/130). This is a quick manual on how to install kana and kanji (Japanese writing) handling for the Mozilla-Firefox browser (and probably all other browsers) on Debian Sarge. I don’t know whether the following is or isn’t mandatory, but these steps were […]
This article was first written in April 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/122) XAMS (eXtended Account Managing Software) is a powerful application suite for managing e-mail accounts for multiple domains in a virtual hosting environment, using a simple set of web pages coded in PHP. It provides with quotas on mailboxes and delegation of […]
This is a simple guide on how to install Webalizer on a Debian system equipped with Apache. This should work for every version of every three elements (Debian, Apache and Webalizer) all together. Webalizer is a statistics application which analyses the Apache logs (in /var/log/apache) and makes a graphical output in web format, using the […]
To create and save iptables rules the default Debian way, this is the way to go: create your rules using the CLI [1] iptables save them on the active rule by issuing a /etc/init.d/iptables save active create the rules for the inactive state (when booting, for example) and save them accordingly That way, the rules will […]
Replicator [1] is a set of Perl scripts meants to automate the replication of Debian GNU/Linux installations, ranging from Debian GNU/Linux Desktops to Cluster Computing servers. It allows to install easily and in a few minutes the same software on various machines with potentially different hardware. Even further, it doesn’t require any technical skills to […]
Debian GNU/Linux is one of the main and earlier GNU/Linux distribution. You may wonder why it is our preferred distribution. Here is why [1]. it is entirely Free Software it is entirely done by volunteers, and, as such, is not dependent upon any single company anywhere (it also means no-one could ever claim you anything for […]
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